It was this deficiency , I considered consider , while running over in thought think the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people , and while speculating speculate upon the possible influence which the one , in the long lapse of centuries , might have exercised upon the other -- it was this deficiency , perhaps , of collateral issue , and the consequent undeviating transmission , from sire to son , of the patrimony with the name , which had , at length , so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the " House of Usher " -- an appellation which seemed to include , in the minds of the peasantry who used it , both the family and the family mansion .